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Die Walküre has achieved some popularity as a stand-alone work and continues to be performed independently from its role in the tetralogy. The story of Die Walküre is based on the Norse mythology told in the Völsunga saga and the Poetic Edda. In this version, the Volsung twins Sieglinde and Siegmund, separated in childhood, meet and fall in ...
Arthur Rackham's illustration to The Ride of the Valkyries. The Ride of the Valkyries (German: Walkürenritt or Ritt der Walküren) is the popular name of the prelude to the first scene of the third and last act of Die Walküre, the second of the four epic music dramas that constitute the operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung), composed by Richard Wagner
The Ring proper begins with Die Walküre and ends with Götterdämmerung, with Rheingold as a prelude. Wagner called Das Rheingold a Vorabend or "Preliminary Evening", and Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung were subtitled First Day, Second Day and Third Day, respectively, of the trilogy proper. The scale and scope of the story is epic.
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Karajan: The Maestro and His Festival (German: Karajan – Der Meister und seine Spiele) [1] [2] is a documentary film about the creation and production of Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre in 1967 by Herbert von Karajan, his favourite stage designer Günther Schneider-Siemssen and the 2017 recreation of his ground-breaking performance.
According to PEOPLE, Wagner plans to celebrate his 95th with his family and friends in Aspen, Colo., "with a celebratory dinner planned at French-American bistro Cache Cache."
Colorado took down two episodes of Deion Sanders' weekly show after recruit's name was mentioned on it in violation of minor NCAA rules
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